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by shawn 8y ago
It was sarcasm (I think), but it’s what social media has been clamoring for for years. And yes, it’s a terrible idea. It’s only favored by those who want to curtail what people can say.
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by shawn 8y ago
It was refreshingly insightful. It clearly illustrates the problem with “no platforming,” a concept that is inherently censorship.
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by shawn 8y ago
Excellent: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datprotocol/whitepaper/mas... It seemed too simple of an idea not to already be done. Hopefully it conceals your IP. Arg. Nope. It does not. It leaves it up to the clie
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by shawn 8y ago
I’ve been working on that. It’s a hard problem, but emule works quite well. I propose something based on that: when you start a program, you advertise all the sha256’s of all the files you share. Whenever you need a resource, you send a req
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by shawn 8y ago
Hahaha. What? That’s awesome. What did the macros do? I’ve always wanted to make a plausible code generator based on markov chains. It still seems like an effective way to trick people into thinking you’re working on some hard problem.
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by shawn 8y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y27ey39dRYQ It’s the size of the download.
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by shawn 8y ago
Right, but with who?
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by shawn 8y ago
Second, my intention is for all Tesla employees to remain shareholders of the company, just as is the case at SpaceX. If we were to go private, employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. Thi
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by shawn 8y ago
This can be summed up as “it sucks to be not-rich.” But that’s always been true. Class mobility has been the exception rather than the rule, and I’m not sure there are ways of changing that other than on an individual basis (i.e. starting a
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by shawn 8y ago
I like how there are three different interpretations of the question.
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by shawn 8y ago
http://tacocopter.com
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by shawn 8y ago
Because it’s the SEC. It’s the favorite tool to send rich people to jail. Of all the things rich Americans should be afraid of, the SEC probably ranks near the top, short of physical threats.
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by shawn 8y ago
The interesting part is what ties all of them together: mutual incentives. It’s in your interest to eat because otherwise you’ll die, even if you don’t quite know what “you” is. And that’s sort of true of companies as well.
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by shawn 8y ago
Do cofounders often have a chaotic relationship secretly, or is it mostly positive? It’s always positive outwardly, of course, but I’m asking about the side that people rarely see. It’s hard to know what’s normal and what’s not. And that’s
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by shawn 8y ago
$420.69, to be precise. The replies raise an interesting question: does this count as stock manipulation? I’m not sure it would, but the rules seem a bit arbitrary sometimes.
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by shawn 8y ago
They’ll have to wait in line. My time is far too valuable to give it away. I have tremendous things to accomplish. Actually, I would be surprised if a vuln creeps its way into a builtin. Most of the runtime should be stateless, and regex ex
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by shawn 8y ago
Built-in functions currently consume 700 KB in each Isolate (an Isolate roughly corresponds to a browser tab in Chrome). This is quite wasteful, and last year we began working on reducing this overhead. In V8 v6.4, we shipped lazy deserial
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by shawn 8y ago
Star Trek was one of my biggest influences. I’ve been trying to think of a way to modernize the series without cannibalizing Roddenberry’s ideals. Or go the other way and do a Game of Thrones style Star Trek universe. Also https:/&#x2
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by shawn 8y ago
Critical Care https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Care_(Star_Trek:_Vo...
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by shawn 8y ago
I once managed a Facebook account on behalf of someone else. Normally, you would expect this to confuse Facebook greatly. Instead the opposite happened: Whenever I was logged in as them, Facebook recommended me people that they knew. This m
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by shawn 8y ago
Also Lisp sucks in large groups. The simplicity is both its biggest strength and weakness. There are fewer smart people by definition, and the smartest people tend to want to make money. The net result is that you end up with blub powering
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by shawn 8y ago
At least the system is working as designed.
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by shawn 8y ago
Reminds me of https://youtu.be/K4JhruinbWc?t=110
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by shawn 8y ago
Engineers are allowed to make approximations whenever they want, and approximations aren't restricted from introducing new concepts/terminology. Well, yes. But in this case, the approximations are completely made up. They'r
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by shawn 8y ago
You can come up with whatever mathematical definitions you want. When I say "It makes no sense," I'm speaking very precisely: There is nothing in nature which corresponds to the idea of multiplying two RGB colors together. In
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by shawn 8y ago
This is mistaken. A correct renderer would look correct to whatever creature was looking at it. If we had monochrome vision, we couldn't simply use scalars because it wouldn't look right for those who could see more. And how could
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by shawn 8y ago
And yet, it has no basis in reality. Point out the physics equivalent of multiplying two colors. Those bands are arbitrary, defined by human color receptors. If we were dogs, would we be arguing that lighting should be defined as {a,b} * {x
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by shawn 8y ago
If it has meaning, then it should be easy to define what it means. In fact, multiplying two RGB colors is about as meaningful as multiplying the color of an apple by the color of a dog. It's certainly not rooted in physics.
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by shawn 8y ago
This is unrelated to the claim that multiplying two colors is meaningless.
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by shawn 8y ago
If it isn't a substantive criticism, then it should be easy to address. The claim is precise: It's meaningless to multiply two colors, yet this is the core abstraction that we use in our rendering engines. New ideas are needed to

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